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Overview of Content Dripping for Your Course

content dripping is the strategy of releasing information gradually and in advance to avoid overwhelming users with too much information at once. In addition, this method maintains the learners' interest and curiosity about the lessons to come.

What is content dripping?

Content Dripping keeps learners curious, engaged and motivated, resulting in improved course completion rates.

  • Content dripping in online teaching refers to gradually releasing course materials over a specified period. Instead of allowing learners to access all course content immediately after enrollment, content dripping involves making lessons or modules available to them only after a set number of days. 
  • Here are some benefits of using content drip in online courses:
  1. Boosting Engagement Levels: By releasing new content periodically, learners remain motivated to return to the course and access fresh material. This engagement helps maintain interest over time.
  2. Creating a Better Learning Experience: Content Dripping ensures that learners follow a structured path of lessons, guiding them through their learning process at an ideal pace.
  3. Breaking Down Complex Topics: For lengthy or intricate topics, content dripping helps learners digest lessons without feeling overwhelmed by information.
  4. Increasing Completion Rate and Learners Retention: Regularly providing access to new content encourages learners to keep returning to the course and consume each lesson or module.
  5. Structuring Content for learners: Content dripping ensures that learners engage with all course material rather than skipping ahead. This approach helps guide them through the learning process and ensures they assimilate valuable teachings.

Enable Content dripping:

  • To enable content dripping for your course, go to Products > Courses > Desired Course.
  • Then click on the Settings button.

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  • Choose the Content Dripping option.

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  • Now, click the Content Dripping button to enable it

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  • After turning on the content dripping feature, choose one of these options to release content according to the content start date.

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  1. Learner Enrollment Date: Under this method, lessons are released according to the date of the learner's enrollment. Thus, each learner has a unique date of access to the lessons. For instance, your learner joins on March 15th. The lessons will be made available, with a start date of March 15. 
  2. Fixed start date: With this method, the start date of your course will be set by yourself. For example, if you set the start date to March 20, then the course will only begin on that date, whenever your learners enrol in the course.
  • After you select the suitable method, you can select the date of the course release by clicking here.

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  • To confirm your changes, click the Save button now.

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Configure Content Dripping: 

  • Now, select the Configure Content Dripping option to set up lesson dripping days for your course.

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  • Here, select the section and type in the lesson release days. The days are based on the start date.

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  • After you've entered the lesson release date, remember to click the Save button. 

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  • Now, your content will be released gradually based on what you prefer.